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  1. Buddha Dharma

    The last post is the WINNER!

    And that effort was vain Alas!
  2. Buddha Dharma

    What about the world today indicates to apocalyptic Christians that this is the actual end time?

    As opposed to all the times Christians thought in the past that the end was upon the world. We even see from the New Testament seeming indication that the apostles thought the end was near coming. Perhaps even Jesus himself: Matthew 10:23, Matthew 16:27-28, Luke 21:22 1 John 2:18, 1...
  3. Buddha Dharma

    The last post is the WINNER!

    Winning while having homemade bean dip for dinner, with cheese and peppers- yum! This vegetarian meal is one of my treats. My roommates love it.
  4. Buddha Dharma

    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    I find this interesting. I seem to recall that the actual orthodox Christian view is that not even dogma tells us about God. Rather, indicates what God is not for one that sees. This creates an interesting, seeming contradiction in a worldview often fixated on orthodoxy. Anselm of Canterbury...
  5. Buddha Dharma

    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    I like that thought. It is similar to Anekantavada in Jainism, which I find myself favorable toward on occasion. This Jain concept posits an open-ended reality that is not truly one thing or another thoughts may attempt to grip with.
  6. Buddha Dharma

    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    There is always that, yes. Psychedelics add an interesting dimension to this topic.
  7. Buddha Dharma

    Spiritually Confused and Which Path to Take

    I would say whichever you find the most conducive to your growth and overall well-being, including your good relations with your fellow creatures. My own guru the Buddha encouraged everyone to ask themselves some serious questions about the path they may currently be walking. Check out the...
  8. Buddha Dharma

    When should Mueller’s investigation end?

    I voted should end some time. That being when it's been proven beyond a doubt Trump is not guilty of collusion, money laundering, or anything else. Not just Republicans saying so while they admit Russia influenced our elections- but an actual definitive conclusion of the investigation. I do...
  9. Buddha Dharma

    Former CIA Director John Brennan: "Our Future Is In Jeopardy"

    Oh indeed
  10. Buddha Dharma

    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    @Vouthon have anything from the noteworthy tradition of Christian mysticism with it's extensive literary corpus you can add? What suggested to some Christian thinkers that God contains all life, and that this is all more than just our being mere servile creations?
  11. Buddha Dharma

    Another Interesting Curiosity of the Baha'i religion

    As have I. It is possible though that Krishna has his origins in an older understanding of him as a demigod. I acknowledge that possibility. I think the Hindu perspective of Krishna as the Supreme Lord though isn't likely to invite much speculation about the aforementioned. In Greco-Buddhism...
  12. Buddha Dharma

    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    Now that is interesting. Have any further thoughts on this matter? As a rule, you are correct. Every idea in human thought seems to have it's accompanying negative. Do you think it runs any deeper than that?
  13. Buddha Dharma

    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    Jewish mystic thought doesn't speculate about interconnection between things, or there is no school that does?
  14. Buddha Dharma

    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    One possibility that has occurred to me and may indicate an interconnection- is our ability to feel for others in any situation. Situations we may never have been in during the course of our present life, but if we look deep within we can empathize. This suggests to me that perhaps we've been...
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    Indications of Oneness in Basic Human Experience and Perception

    Before science told us that we were all made of the same star stuff, or contemporary psychology said that we play on one another's consciousness as external factors- there were humans that concluded we have always been interconnected. Hinduism and Buddhism tend to non-duality. That we are all...
  16. Buddha Dharma

    What Would Be Your Appeal on Judgement Day?

    I would plead nothing. If eternal annihilation is the worst a deity that might be tyrannical could do to me- that is nothing to fear. If it is hell. I'd still plead nothing because I regret none of the ways in which I've lived my life for good, or acted in accord with my disposition on certain...
  17. Buddha Dharma

    How the Buddha became a popular Christian saint

    You'll appreciate this detail @Vouthon because we're always contrasting Buddhist and Christian virtues. There is a story in a text that I'd have to look at my 'Teachings of the Buddha: Expanded Edition, by Jack Kornfield' copy again to recall. This story bears a striking similarity to Jesus and...
  18. Buddha Dharma

    How the Buddha became a popular Christian saint

    It is based on more the assumption that Greco-Buddhism had once spanned as far west as Alexandria, Egypt- which at least isn't unlikely even if currently unproven. Menander had correspondence with Greek rulers that far and it isn't at all unlikely the infamous library contained Greek...
  19. Buddha Dharma

    Wan't to reduce abortions - Make them legal !!

    Come now. We both know the right's objection to abortion is about opposing feminism ;) I am on the left and opposed to casual abortion on principle, but even I can see that.
  20. Buddha Dharma

    How the Buddha became a popular Christian saint

    Good thread @Vouthon. I'll only mention what you already doubtless know- that Buddhism was in the West before, but died out during the 5th century CE. That is the cut off point, where all details seem to mysteriously vanish. That's why scholars often put forth that the Church saw Buddhism as a...
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